Around 75 million euros have already been requested to recover homes damaged by bad weather, the coordinator of the Reconstruction Mission Structure for the Central Region of the country, Paulo Fernandes, announced today.
“Today, we have 12,625 applications for housing up to 10 thousand euros, with an aggregate number of more than 30,000 registrations, 30,529, which gives a requested fund of around 75 million euros”, Paulo Fernandes told journalists, in Leiria.
Clarifying that the average value per request is around 5,900 euros, the coordinator said that “70% of applications are in the context of the Central Region”.
Regarding the technical capacity to help in the analysis of applications, Paulo Fernandes cited the support of several professional entities (Architects, Engineers and Technical Engineers).
“We managed to close an agreement for 500 professionals, including architects, engineers and technical engineers, who are currently being contracted and registered from the intermunicipal communities, so that, by a very simple rule, which is based on the proportion of the damage, based on the sampling we made of the applications, they could be distributed among the different communities and can immediately start looking at the 12,625 applications received until this morning”, he declared.
The coordinator said that, within the scope of support for loss of income, “3,062 requests have been registered so far”, half of which have been decided.
On the other hand, using still provisional data, he highlighted that there are 374 homeless people (103 families) and 130 displaced people (72 families), a “possible universe of 175 buildings, so far, that are uninhabitable”.
In these cases, the coordinator reiterated the need to “find answers”, given that these are houses whose reconstruction costs more than 10 thousand euros.
Eighteen people died in Portugal following the passage of depressions Kristin, Leonardo and Marta, which also caused many hundreds of injuries and displacement.
The total or partial destruction of homes, businesses and equipment, the fall of trees and structures, the closure of roads, schools and transport services, and the cut of energy, water and communications, floods and floods are the main material consequences of the storm.
The Centro, Lisbon and Vale do Tejo and Alentejo regions were the most affected.
The calamity situation that covered the 68 most affected municipalities ended on February 15th.
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